Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing , 8th Edition

Description

350 pages

Key Features

• Complete, concise assessment data on general health, specific problems, nutrition, sleep, and growth and development is easy to access in the clinical setting.
• UNIQUE! Evidence-based interventions include guidelines for treating pediatric patients and providing information to their families and caregivers, with new interventions added on phototherapy and asthma inhalers.
• UNIQUE! Safety Alerts highlight safety information throughout the book.
• UNIQUE! Atraumatic Care boxes contain techniques for care that minimize pain, discomfort, and stress.
• Nursing Care Plans include guidelines and examples for developing care plans for patients, and a companion Evolve website allows you to modify, customize, and print these care plans.
• UNIQUE! A community focus includes guidelines to interventions, patient teaching, and home care, along with Community Focus boxes throughout book.
• Tables and charts for health promotion summarize nutrition, immunizations, safety and injury prevention, and parental guidance.
• Common laboratory test data is provided at your fingertips.

New to this Edition

• UNIQUE! Modifiable Nursing Care Plans for 24 pediatric conditions are included in the care plan constructor on the companion Evolve website.
• UNIQUE! Patient teaching instructions on Evolve allow you to print and disseminate sets of easy-to-understand instructions to caregivers, with 15 translated into Spanish.
• NEW Pain Assessment and Management unit presents pain management strategies for the neonate, child, and adolescent.
• NEW! Full-color photos of dermatologic conditions help you diagnose the pediatric dermatologic problems most commonly seen in practice.

Companion Products

• Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
• Wong's Clinical Manual of Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Marilyn J. Hockenberry, PhD, RN, PPCNP-BC,FAAN , Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Global HOPE Nursing, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; Bessie Baker Professor Emerita of Nursing Chair, Duke Institutional Review Board, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and David Wilson, MS, RN, C, (NIC), Staff PALS Coordinator Children's Hospital at Saint Francis Tulsa, OK